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- noun physics The proposed state of large-scale
reality in whichquantum mechanical superpositions ofmacroscopically distinct states never occur
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macro- + realism
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This form of realism, "macrorealism," was first posited by Leggett in the 1980s.
The Real, The Complex, and The Imaginary Zoe Brain 2008
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